The Lost Ancient City of the Giza Pyramid Builders and the Wall of the Crow | Ancient Architects
发布时间 2020-04-24 17:48:22 来源
摘要
Approximately 400 metres or 1312 feet south of the Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt there is an ancient urban site that has been excavated since 1998, that is helping us to understand the history and development of the Giza necropolis.
It is just south of the enigmatic Wall of the Crow, a 200 metre or 656 foot long, 10 metre or 32.8 feet high wall, approximately 10 metres thick at its base.
The Ancient Egyptian Research Associates, also known as AERA call the wall the Great Gateway because of the huge opening inside it. Up close you could say it is more like a short tunnel than a large gateway.
The main feature of the lost city is the Gallery Complex, which is believed to have once housed between 1,500 and 2,000 men. Each gallery set contained several long galleries, set out in a somewhat uniform way, all of which included domestic spaces and sleeping platforms, as well as cooking and baking areas. The gallery sets were oriented east to west and were around 170 to 180 feet long, whilst the individual galleries were oriented north to south.
Experts believe that these were either the barracks of the labourers who maybe built the pyramids and mastabas of the 4th dynasty, or that they were the barracks of the king’s royal guards - his army.
In this video I give you an overview of this lost city as well as its relationship with the Wall of the Crow, a relationship that proves that this wall was constructed in the 4th Dynasty. But why was it made? Watch this video to find out.
All images are taken from Google Images and the below sources for educational purposes only.
Sources:
http://www.aeraweb.org/
http://www.aeraweb.org/lost-city-project/wall-of-the-crow/
http://www.aeraweb.org/projects/lost-city/
http://www.aeraweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/aeragram6_1.pdf
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